My 6 year old daughter loved this book so much and was begging me to read "just a few more pages" every night when I'd try to put it down. As a result, we zoomed through it in a matter of days. I didn't realize until half way through the book that it was the third book in a series, so I promptly ordered the others for us to read together. I actually grabbed this book at her school book fair simply because the little girl on the cover resembled my biracial daughter (her father is from West Africa), and I'm always looking for books that have characters that she can possibly see herself in. The cast of these Rescue Princess books are largely from diverse fictional kingdoms and I really love that. The story is rather predictable to me, but she's still developing those skills so she didn't have a clue who was behind the disappearance of the lioness and cubs. Overall, a good introduction to chapter books for kids who still are in a princess phase like mine is.